2015 BMW Championship results: Jason Day is playing a different game than everyone else

“I actually think he’s playing superior golf to Tiger in 2000, as far as shooting low scores.” That Johnny Miller went and compared Jason Day’s current run, even if it does seem hyperbolic, to what most consider the greatest golf ever played should give you a sense of just how special and dominant the Aussie is right now. After matching the PGA Tour record with an absurd 124 strokes through his first 36 holes, Day spent most of the weekend in cruise control and coasted to a six-shot win at the BMW Championship.

The convincing win was Day’s fourth victory in his last six starts. He joins Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh as the only players in the last 20 years to post five PGA Tour victories in the same season. And perhaps most importantly to the 27-year-old, he’s the new No. 1 player in the world. Aussie writer Ben Everill, who is close with Day and follows his almost every round, admitted the win was not a major but the feat of getting to No. 1 was just as important as a major title to him. He’s the third Aussie to reach the pinnacle of the world rankings, and the youngest ever from the country to get there (Greg Norman and Adam Scott were the previous Aussies at No. 1).

Day’s dominance did not come on some dog track against a weak field. This event featured the top 70 in the FedExCup standings and a loaded leaderboard that included Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and Justin Rose on the first page all weekend. It’s just that all those world-class stars were clustered in some sort of “B division” five, six and seven shots back of Day.

The closest it got on Sunday was four, but the drama had pretty much been gone since Friday night. Spieth, who held No. 1 last week, and actually played well this week, said he felt like he should have paid admission or had to buy a ticket to play alongside Day. It was those first two days that ended this early. Day was not some under-the-radar player who got hot, but rather the unquestionable best player in the world taking it to another level. There would be no relenting, and that 18-under 124 had decided it two days earlier than probably the Tour and its TV network partners wanted.

He started Friday morning with a chip shot from his 18th fairway for the chance to post the seventh round of 59 in PGA Tour history. That came up short, and he joked that he felt like everyone was disappointed in him. He cleaned up a round of 61 on that final hole, turned around and went out and posted a 63 later in afternoon. The entire day came to an apex when he bombed in an eagle putt that had both Spieth and Fowler laughing and shaking their heads in disbelief.

It’s obviously always fun to watch someone dominate his peers and the best in the world. But the way Day does it is especially thrilling to watch. He destroys the ball off the tee and absolutely never lets up, always going for it and always ripping away from distances that most of his competitors cannot contemplate. That everything is dropping in the cup is also a necessary part of this streak, but I’ll remember the first two days of this tournament for a guy playing Tiger-level golf and sending it in every single occasion, even when he didn’t have to with a comfortable lead.

The Player of Year debate was supposed to be over as soon as Jordan Spieth won two majors and set a new combined scoring record for all four of the game’s biggest championships. Day, however, is making this a debate, and it’s yet another indicator of just how incredible this transitional season from the Tiger era has been for the game of golf.

The FedExCup is now off to Atlanta for the season finale. Here are your final results from Conway Farms: